Just maybe, we try to decipher the words, wishing to discover the disapproval is not a sever as we know it be. Can you image, that much disapproval, over time, with compound interest? I feel that would throw me back to beginnings of dirt.

I have to say, they're not _as_ disapproving of humans as the ones in this picture (WARNING: might be quite traumatic to view despite being a medieval artwork)https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268030493216195&set=a.333144506704793.86238.100000277395845&type=3&theater

translation first bit (from after the picture):Cuniculus, that’s a rabbitof which there are a lot in many countriesThey live in holes in the earthand come out stealthily at nightthey do harm in the gardensin the orchard as well as in the wheatfieldsThen, in the morning, they returnAnd close off the entrance of their warrenSo that man won’t find them during the day

(after it becomes more difiicult/strange… I’ll ask my more history oriented sister. Will be continued!)

Hey, so glad this got used! When I came across this, I immediately thought of this site.Great translation from Elsewhere. I am Flemish, but the medieval variant of our language baffles me, too, in that second part. (My field is in medieval Chinese history, so I think I can be excused!)

'Where rabbits live a yearThey do well in a short timeBecause they ride (mate) and carry a lotAre they displeased in some townsThey walk away, and others that are their acquintances tooLong ride (mate) the rabbit.'

Hmm, so the message here, after all the translation (Thanks again!), is that rabbits, being many, will always outwit hoomins, and despite the attempts of the (particularly stoopid) hoomins, rabbits will always survive, because they bear many young, despite the fact that they do not live long.

@Grandrabbit: we're not far off, considering... I found another transcript that read 'Lange ridet dat conijn' as the last line, so hence my suggestion.@Fleetie: yup, they eat our stuff, produce a lot of offspring and walk away if they disappove. Simple really ;-)